Chapter Sixteen
I wake up to silence.
Sitting up, I rub my eyes.
Something about this silence is reassuring, but I don’t know what.
Then I look around.
The bland room doesn’t have any furniture besides my bed, and there are no windows.
Wait a second. The room also smells vaguely of medicine—reminiscent of a nurse’s office or a hospital room.
Oh, crap.
Memories rush back to me—both of the Rite I’ve just undergone, and my vision where Lilith used her sire bond over me to force me to kill Ariel and Felix.
The events in that vision took place here, in this very room.
Thank goodness I made my friends stay on Gomorrah. Avoiding medical establishments was clearly not enough to overcome this future.
This must be the room where they take you to recover after the Rite. In fact, Lucretia e
